Sentence examples for rather than so from inspiring English sources

Rather than so baked in narcotics that they'd still be around (along with the cockroaches) after the neutron bombs go off.

The very jazz-savvy movie critic David Thomson wrote a piece in 2008 in which he said he wished jazz could influence movies more through its intuitive urgency, rather than so often standing in for something or somebody else.

If the world managed to escape catastrophic war, he wrote in one characteristically dark letter in 1953, "it will not be because of ourselves but despite of ourselves: by virtue, that is, of the fact that we have so little, rather than so much, control over the course of events".

The occurrence of BP dwells right at the point that people follow UE rather than SO.

It is more parsimonious to assume a common culture pool, from which inspiration can be drawn, rather than so many convergent flashes of genius, even if the inventors in question were not always conscious of their sources.

Rather than so much backward-looking self- indulgence, I would have preferred the meeting to convey a sense of urgency regarding the most important challenges lying ahead for the world trading system.

The law is one of only four in the nation which specifically criminalise homosexual sodomy, rather than so-called "deviant" behaviour between heterosexuals as well.

Despite reports to the contrary, she favors affirmative action, albeit in the sense of outreach rather than so-called diversity quotas (although her comments here reveal a level of ambivalence about aspects of implementation).

Not everyone is open to abstract painting or Mr. Tarr's long, beautiful films, but perhaps some of this resistance is fueled by cognitive habit rather than so-called taste.

No matter how sophisticated modern technology, even compared with at the time of the last Gulf war, is it not more precise to have weapons dismantled in the presence of inspectors rather than so-called precision bombing trying to take them out?" Prescott said in his tribute that Kennedy had been vindicated on Iraq.

That's why today I support holistic measures to reduce bullying rather than so-called "zero-tolerance" policies.